Fulcrum Point New Music

Chicago has a formidable reputation as a creative incubator for theater, architecture, and design. When Fulcrum Point New Music Project was established in 1998, Chicago’s new music scene was narrowly focused in contemporary classical music and stilted in its accepted range of styles. No group was exploring the complete spectrum of new musical possibility. Dominated by the academic contemporary canon, composers in genres such as minimalism, neo-classicism, neo-romanticism, postmodernism, and multimedia art had few outlets for expression and resources for support.

Chicago has a formidable reputation as a creative incubator for theater, architecture, and design. When Fulcrum Point New Music Project was established in 1998, Chicago’s new music scene was narrowly focused in contemporary classical music and stilted in its accepted range of styles. No group was exploring the complete spectrum of new musical possibility. Dominated by the academic contemporary canon, composers in genres such as minimalism, neo-classicism, neo-romanticism, postmodernism, and multimedia art had few outlets for expression and resources for support.

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